Posted by
Matthew on Friday, June 13, 2008 8:34:27 AM
America's "greatest generation" were those who knew what had to be done and did it, regardless of the personal cost or how they felt about it. And ever since, we've become increasingly 'self-aware' and more attuned to our hearts than our minds.
That, in my estimation, is why this election year has many of us on the conservative end of things trying to decide whether to put a clothespin on our nose and pull the lever this November, or sit it out and pray we survive the next term.
The voters just coming of age have been taught that self-esteem is paramount, and that personal sacrifice is pointless. They want their fifteen nanoseconds of fame, and the perceived adoration and blessings that will come with it, rather than a lifetime of doing the right thing no matter how difficult.
Logic doesn't work anymore. That's why so many of the liberati say that conservativism is a dying system.
Progressivism doesn't try to use logic. It uses feelings, and feeling-emoting terms and phrases, to lull its adherents into a zombie-like state of emotional bi-polarism. 'Bush lied' is a mantra (please, pay no attention to the preponderance of evidence, backed by the Democratic Kommittee on Unfeeling Activities own conclusions that the
WORLD thought Sadam had WMDs); 'change' is another. TownHall carried
an article yesterday by Sandy Rios that talked about the new-agey adoration that is being heaped on The Obamessiah.
People who cling to traditional faith are considered mindless, while the believers in the new religion are the intelligent ones.
The new religion is a faith in a man, a politician from the Chicago machine. He will stop the rising waters. He will heal the world. He will "
usher in a new way of being"...
This is the upside-down world in which we live.
McCain isn't exciting. I've been thinking of playing a few of his speeches at bedtime to help with my insomnia. He also is not a conservative, but I've commented elsewhere that I'd rather agree with the Pres. 25% of the time then 2% of the time.
Conservativism and short attention spans are not a good match, and the country suffers collectively from ADHD.
The message of conservativism is not emotionally satisfying. It offers
no easy solutions, and it only offers a hope of a reward if you work
really, really hard.
The lottery does sound much more appealing.
I'm not sure what can be done to convert the followers of the new
religion. I'm not sure what it would take to convince people that
working hard and getting a solid education to improve the odds of a
better job and a better life is more enticing than watching subsidized
cable on my government-provided couch, watching that uplifting stuff
called "Reality TV." I don't know how to get people to recognize that
having a stable family life is so much more satisfying than having the
newest cell phone, the biggest house, the coolest ride.
We may have to wait through a swing of the pendulum.
Maybe if we're lucky, their shaky modern savior will miss a few of the rocks he uses to appear to walk on the water.
Maybe the short attention spans will move on to something else before the election.
Is there a new season of American Idol starting before the elections?